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Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day

Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day

No myth-making here: just an impressive document of old friends blowing minds again...

The Rolling Stones - GRRR!

The Rolling Stones - GRRR!

Despite the silly title and gorilla sleeve, this 3CD compilation proves a respectable primer...

Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin - Instrumental Tourist

Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin - Instrumental Tourist

Cosmic collaboration from two electronic masters...

The Lumineers - The Lumineers

The Lumineers - The Lumineers

Pounding folk debut album from Denver, Colorado-based trio...

Kris Kristofferson - Feeling Mortal

Kris Kristofferson - Feeling Mortal

More death, Vicar? Aged 76, KK faces down the Reaper...

Mickey Newbury - Lulled By The Moonlight/Stories From The Silver Moon Cafe/Blue To This Day

Mickey Newbury - Lulled By The Moonlight/Stories From The Silver Moon Cafe/Blue To This Day

The last wilful testaments of a true original...

The Rolling Stones - Charlie Is My Darling Ireland 1965

The Rolling Stones - Charlie Is My Darling Ireland 1965

Satisfaction guaranteed! The band's fascinated early days...

Woody Guthrie – Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection

Woody Guthrie – Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection

Hard to believe that Woody Guthrie, conceivably, could still be alive in 2012, given that he’s...

Allah-Las – Allah-Las

Allah-Las – Allah-Las

Los Angeles quartet the Allah-Las have the most perfect of backstories for a...

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

The banana’s back. Not before time. Late last year, Lou Reed’s reputation suffered a serious...

Donald Fagen - Sunken Condos

Donald Fagen - Sunken Condos

An unexpected new treat from the Hall of Famer...

Mark Eitzel - Don't Be A Stranger

Mark Eitzel - Don't Be A Stranger

More heartbreak and droll humour from one of America’s underrated greats...

Johnny Cash - The Complete Columbia Album Collection

Johnny Cash - The Complete Columbia Album Collection

Motherlode: Spanning the decades with the Man in Black—59 albums-plus, across 63 discs...

Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man

Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man

A stripped-down - yet chart friendly - return...

Peter Gabriel - So 25th anniversary box set

Peter Gabriel - So 25th anniversary box set

The classic '86 solo album, lavishly packaged with extras...

Jeff Lynne - Long Wave/Mr. Blue Sky: The Very Best Of Electric Light Orchestra

Jeff Lynne - Long Wave/Mr. Blue Sky: The Very Best Of Electric Light Orchestra

ELO man upgrades his hits and re-imagines his youth...

Van Morrison - Born To Sing: No Plan B

Van Morrison - Born To Sing: No Plan B

A real return to form, though it can't match Van's best...

R.E.M - Document reissue

R.E.M - Document reissue

25th anniversary reissue, accompanied by contemporaneous live show...

Patterson Hood - Heat Lightning Rumbles In The Distance

Patterson Hood - Heat Lightning Rumbles In The Distance

Drive-By Trucker lifts the lid on his crisis years...

Bill Wilson - Ever Changing Minstrel

Bill Wilson - Ever Changing Minstrel

Back from the bargain bin, a lost piece of southern-soul-baring...

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Bruce Springsteen, Tame Impala, Rodriguez, George Clinton, John Fogerty, Prince and George Jones in new Uncut


I would have bought the issue of Melody Maker in which I first read about Bruce Springsteen on my way into the art school in Newport, where in March 1973 I was in my last term, only a few months away from moving to London and not long after that fetching up on MM as a junior reporter/feature...